Do you ever turn your mobile off ...

nanna8

I only answer calls if the name flashes up on the screen. Otherwise,if they are genuine, they will leave a message and I will ring back.

Me too. Mine is always on, but I don't always answer. that's why I don't understand people seeing phones as intrusive. Answering is optional, as people can leave a message, or I can call them back when it's convenient.

No, it’s always left on. It’s put onto silent mode for theatre, cinema, church and surgery, etc, but otherwise it doesn’t get switched off.
It doesn’t go in the bedroom.

I only answer calls if the name flashes up on the screen. Otherwise,if they are genuine, they will leave a message and I will ring back.

This morning I rang DD to remind her we were lunching out, booked an aquafit appointment, confirmed the time offered for my physio appointment, did an online order for collection because we are suddenly expecting visitors (they rang me), asked the chemist if DH’s tablets were available yet and started this week’s Duolingo. All on my phone whilst waiting for DD to pick me up.
Carrying your phone around is optional and not something to be scorned. My phone has to be small enough to fit it my trouser pockets.
I had to laugh though, when I saw on Say Yes to the Dress, they make wedding dresses with pockets. Would they be for mobile phones? Could anyone ring in at the just cause or impediment part of the service?

Cabbie
my family know if they need to reach me urgently to call on the landline
What if you’re not home?

Grannynannywanny

^I would never walk around the house with a phone in my hand as some folks do. Nothing is that interesting or imortant^

We’re all different biglouis. Some of us may be dealing with family circumstances that are important. For example family members who are ill or in need of support. I have mine at my bedside and have been called in an emergency situation several times in recent years.

Agree Granny, some things are that important!

I don’t carry mine with me around the house or garden, but always take it when I go out, in case of emergencies. Normally the sound is switched off. I turn it off for church and choirs and forget to turn it back on. My family know if they need to reach me urgently to ring on the landline.
I guess I ought to take it into the garden and bathroom for safety now I live alone.
I rarely make calls on the landline after getting a huge bill not long after DH had died. Obviously I needed to make lots of calls and did not realise we were on an Evenings and Weekends tarriff.
I use my mobile for calls now and for texts, Whatsapp etc, but prefer my ipad as it is bigger and more convenient.

I carry my phone with me everywhere, even when taking a shower its in the bathroom on the floor. The reason being I live alone, it is my lifeline if anything happens. My mobility not good and terrified of falling and not being able to summon help. It is my lifeline. I also wear a pendant indoors linked to local help line.

Just happened to have mine on my desk this morning, which was a good thing, because I was expecting the delivery of a new dishwasher and from 8.00am onwards the courier was sending me messages, plotting his arrival time. Between 8.00am and delivery, about 10 minutes ago, I must have had at least 5, I think more, update calls!

I keep mine with me to count my steps. Definitely keep it by my bed at night, as that's when emergencies are most likely to happen. (Fingers crossed I'll never need it)

Don't turn it off really, except to reboot if it starts playing up, which is rare.

But for phone calls I prefer the landline. Wouldn't dream of using a mobile for making calls if at home, although we often make video calls over Signal to the DGD.

My mother always took a phone into the bathroom with her, which I thought was sensible. She often forgot it there, though!

I keep it near me in case of emergencies .
There are times when I get fed up with it .
I block every cold call .
One of my friends wakes me up at six am with messages .
If only she'd contact me the day before .
A relative calls me with his problems and rambles for an hour at a time .
Otherwise it is essential .

I would usually only switch it off in the theatre or cinema, or while at e.g. the dentist, and it stays downstairs at night anyway. We still have a landline though - hardly used - but family could get in touch that way in an emergency, if necessary.

Unlike e.g. my dd1, I don’t have my mobile ‘glued’ to me while I’m in the house, so quite often callers don’t wait long enough for me to find it and answer. A lot of people seem to expect you to answer within about ten seconds.
So I have to call back.

Mum kept hers turned off unless she wanted to make a call, then complained that we never rang her.
We bought her a mobile because the landline was temperamental. She enjoyed using it but wouldn’t accept that leaving it on used hardly any battery and meant she would get more the more frequent calls that she hoped for.
Her 100+ year old sister tried to persuade Mum to keep in touch by WhatsApp or FB like she does, but no luck.

I'm a driver/carer for a son on the transplant list. I have a charged phone and packed bags on hand 24/7. We have quite a short window to get him to the hospital, so always ready to go, night and day.

Mine is off unless I need to make a call or am about to receive a security text from a bank. Really does save battery power. We have a landline for everyday use.

My mobile is never off, I have it on silent by my bed overnight.

My phone is usually in my pocket. It’s on silent when I’m at work or in company, but I like the availability for my family or friends to ring me or vice versa.
It’s also useful for doing Duolingo or answering GN when I’m waiting to collect DH or DGC or friends from appointments, which never run on time.
One other big benefit is that it costs me nothing except irritation and a bit of battery use to be put on hold even for 39 minutes, which recently saved me a fortune on my car insurance.
Like many on here, I use an iPad or laptop when I’m at home.

My phone is on 24/7 and with me 95% of the time except when my daughter calls to see if I m ok and invariably I ve just walked away from it I don’t carry it around in the house but it’s not normally far away
If you live alone it can be a lifeline to have in the bedroom for safety quite different if you ve got a partner beside you
Landlines are too expensive now
I love to be able to take photos instantly and not run inside to find a camera or be out and about and have to say ‘if only I had my camera with me’

Mine is hardly ever on. Only if I’m out and I want to contact my husband or whatever. We have a landline which I believe is going soon? Then I’ll have to get my act together and get a new one I guess.

Mine is sort of off between midnight and 8am.
I often carry it around with me in a little silk shoulder bag in case I fall down again .
I learned my lesson the last time I fell down in the garden and had to scream for help.

I stand by my first post MOnica. Our landline signal barely carried outside the house, so had I fallen out of the loft hatch in the garage, I’d have been snookered!
Horses for courses - but mobile - the clue’s in the name.

The landline is better to hear on though.

I rang our local garage the other day to book the car in for an MOT, the service manager said he could hardly hear me “You sound as if you’re calling from Afghanistan! “

I sounded really muffled apparently. Not sure if it was my mobile, my voice, his hearing, his phone…..

I'm not remotely 'obsessed' with my phone . But the point of having one is that I can be contacted when needed. I don't have to take every call, I don't have to respond to texts immediately, and I definitely don't have to look at emails unless I want to. But if someone wants to speak to me - whether it is an actual emergency or just to ask if I can pick up some milk on my way home - they can do so.

I have an unlimited use contract on my mobile, but the landline costs Xp per minute for outgoing calls - I can't remember the tariff but it's quite expensive - so in a reversal of the old way of doing things I use the mobile to make calls from home, too. There's nothing 'obsessive' about it though - I just speak to people now and then and send/receive texts to make life more convenient or to keep in touch with friends and family by sending photos and messages.

Like MOnica we use landline all the time at home, mobiles when out. Except for the wretched authenticating with banks ‘so we know it’s really you’.
My great gripe is with institutions who ask for landline and mobile but then invariably ring on the mobile. If I happen to be downstairs and my mobile upstairs or vice versa I never hear it. Have often missed calls that way.

I dislike my mobile phone . I only have one for emergencies and because you need a number to register on websites. I have a landline and an iPad so there are several ways to communicate without jabbing at a tiny phone.